Seib & Wessel: Brownback Pits Kansas Against Texas

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas's low tax push to attract business and investment is positioning the state to compete against other low-tax states, such as Texas.

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the ... what's the national lest you think ... you are in the kind of experiment that you're doing Kansas ... and that the experience of other states what's what's the national implications for what you are and are trying to do ... dine in churn out on ... my back gets everybody ... I don't think this experiment all this has been done a number of places there what nine states and American have no income taxes ... they seem to ... work and made a vanilla make thing is no not without problems ... but these two were taken a number of issues off the shelf would ... be the experience a week and Kansas is thirty years of high taxes ... and people leaving the state for economic activity in other places in and I wanted to lose people in Texas I wanna be Texas ... I and I think we can if we get into position ... well we can grow and have ... a good balance education and infrastructure I think here's the key to ensure it ... is you've gotta get those tax rates down to track people come in ... but you also have to provide good core services ... and and ... then they should be a lesson that that that really is what